Building-wall.



w. L. coLLINs.

BUILDING WALL.

APPLICATION FILED IAN-8.1913- 1,5240,121. Ptenteasept; 11, 191'?.

WALTER L. COLLINS, 0F MILFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUILDING-WALL.

Original application led August 1, 1910, Serial No. 574,768.

. Serial No. 740,814.

To all wlw/m t may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER L. COLLINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milford, in the county of Vorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Building-Walls, of which the following is a speciiication.

This application is a division of my application :jh-574,768, iled August 1, 1910, for which Letters Patent have been granted #1,067,469, dated July 15, 1913.

This invention relates to building construction and more particularly to the con'- struction of a building wall adjoining a window, whereby a caseless window is provided having the usual window-weights, and its weight-compartments are effectively sealed at the inside of the building.

In carrying out this invention the usual window-frame has grounds attached to the outside of its opposite sides and top, Aalthough said grounds may be made separate, if desired, and said grounds are arranged at the inside of the weight-compartments and form inside walls therefor, and said grounds are also arranged flush with the studs adjoining the window-frame, so that the lath and plaster wall instead of terminating, as usual, at a point adjacent the weight-compartments, will extend over the grounds which form the inside wall of said compartment and also over the edge of the windowframe, terminating at the window-stop, and a metallic reinforcement is embedded in the lath and plaster wall, at the edge adjoining the window-stop, which is attached at its inner edge to the aforesaid grounds and ei:- tends across the plaster vwall from back to front, and its outer edge is arranged at the corner of the wall and is exposed.

rlhe window-stop is attached to the window-frame and extends from the sash to the exposed portion of the metallic corner reinforcement.

By my invention the usual inside casing or trim is omitted, yet the corner of the lath and plaster wall is protected and the weightcompartments are effectively sealed at the inside of the building, so that no draft passages lead from said compartments into the room.

In further carrying out my invention the window-frame is set in the building wall to leave a space beneath its sill, and the stool is arranged on said sill, but the usual apron Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 11, 1917.

Divided and this application led January 8,

beneath the stool is omitted, and in lieu thereof the lath and plaster wall is extended across the space beneath the sill, and over the end of the sill up to the stool, and a metallic reinforcement is arranged at the top of said wall, consisting of a strip of sheet metal bent at right angles to form an attaching-portion which is attached to the sill and the stop-portion which is extended overl the top of the wall, directly beneath the stoo F ignre 1 is a front elevation of a portion of an exterior building wall embodying this invention, having a window.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged horizontal section of a portion of the window-frame adjoining the wall taken on the dotted line 2 2, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical section of the window-frame and adjoining wall, broken to save space on the drawing, and taken on the dotted line 3 3, Fig. 1.

The window-frame 10 and its casing 12 are of usual construction. 13 is a ground which is or may be attached to the outside of the frame 10, at its inner edge, thus forni; ing weightcompartments between said grounds and the casing 12, said grounds serving as the inside walls of said compartments. 15 is the usual stud arranged adjacent the opening provided for the windowframe, and which usually forms one side wall of the weightcompartments. The ground 13 is arranged flush with the stud 15 and with the inner edge of the windowframe, as represented in Fig. 2. The lath and plaster wall 16 is carried over the ground 13 and the inner edge of the window-frame, thereby effectively sealing the weightcompartments, and said lath and plaster wall terminates at the inner side or face of the window-frame, so that the usual window-stop 17 which is attached to said frame will extend over and in contact with the edge of said wall. The inner edge of said window-stop terminates a short distance inside of the exposed side of the lath and plaster wall, leaving the corner of said wall exposed and unprotected, and, herein, a metallic reinforcement 25 of any suitable form is embedded in the lath and plaster wall, and extends diagonally across said wall from back to front, its inner edge being attached to the ground 13 by nails or other means and its outer edge-being disposed at the corner of the wall and is exposed.

The 11o inner edge of the window-stop terminates at the exposed portion of the metallic lreinforcement.

30 represents the usual window-sill and 3l the stool arranged on said sill,.a n,d.to avoid the necessity of providing an apron beneath said stool, as has usually been the case, the lath and plaster wall is continued upward as at 32 across the space beneath the window-sill and over the inner endof said sill and terminates at the under side of the stool, and at its upper edge a metallic reinforcement is provided,v particularly for forming astop for the plaster wall. Said reinforcement may consist of apiece of sheet metal bent intermediate its width at. a right angle orv thereabout7 and said reinforcement is arranged with one portion 35 in contact with the sill. and its other porti on. extended forward at the topI of the sill, and in contact with the under side of the stool and said portion 35. is attachedto the sill by nails or otherwise, preparatory to. forming the plaster-wall. By this construction the usual space beneath the sill is effectively closed and the usual apron omitted.' rlhe expression lath and plaster wall is herein used as denoting an ordinary forni or kind of wall and in lieu-thereof any other wellknown form or kind of wall may be e111- ployed.

The several features of my invention` are all involved in the caseless window here shown, but it is obvious that they may bev separately employed in divers ways, and that' some of them are also applicableY to doors where it is desired thatl theplaster wall shall extend to andflushwith the edge ofthe frame, thereby to serve as a substitute for the usual casing or trim.

I claim l. A building-wall having an; opening, a window frame arranged .therein having coinpartmentsl for the window weights, the gii'ounds forming the inner boundary of the compartments being arranged flush .with the inner surface edge of the frame, window stops arranged on and in contact with the face of the frame7 said stops projecting in- Wardly beyond the inner edge of thefrarne to provide with suchinner edge angularl'y Y window-frame set therein having compartments for the window-weights, the grounds at the inside of said compartments being arranged Hush with the inner edge of the frame, window-stops arranged o n the face of i the frame which project inward therefrom, a plaster wall extended over the grounds and the inner edge of the frame which abuts against the projecting portionl of the stops and a metallic reinforcement embedded in the wall at its edge, one edge of'which reinforcement rests against the edge of the projecting portion ofthe stop and is exposed at such point.

3. A building wall having an opening, a window-frameset therein, having compartments for the window-weightS-,y'grounds arranged at the inside of said compartments flush with the inner edge of the windowframe, a plaster wall extended over. said grounds, and the inner edge ofthe windowframe, which terminates iiushwith the face ofthe frame, and a metallic reinforcement embedded'in said plaster wall andl extended diagonally across the saine from back to front, one edge of which is attached to said grounds and the other edge of which exposed atthe inner corner ofthe plaster wall, and a window stop arrangedl on the face of the frame which is extended inward over the edge of said plaster wall, and terminates at VALTER L. COLLINS;

Vitnesses B. J. Noviis, H. B.- Davis.

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